Real Facebook Oversight Board

Democracy is at risk. Join our global experts in the fight to hold Facebook to account. RFOB for short. Parent: @allthecitizens

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

How Algorithms Make Everything the Same - Substack Live on 9th May

Join us for a Substack Live with author of Filterworld @KyleChayka, founder of Metalabel @ystrickler and Orwell-prize winning journalist @CaroleCadwalladr.
https://t.co/QufglJnDyg

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

Pension Funds Have Had It With Tesla’s Board And Musk

https://t.co/RW6kBFhdlV

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

A federal spending bill would impose a 10-year ban on all state and local AI regulation in the US

Oppose this now!

@DesignItForUs @accountabletech

https://t.co/PK9LmpnoFT

[Diaspora in Action for Human Rights and Democracy @FoundationDAHRD]

📑 New report 📑

Our new report - Escalate: Social Media War During the India–Pakistan Conflict, explores how platforms like Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) failed to curb the spread of hate speech and disinformation during the recent conflict.

https://t.co/Cc7UCpX3DE

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[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

🚨 21 May 1 PM EST/6 PM BST/10 AM PST on Substack Live
In this “fireside chat”, we’ll talk with scholar, writer and activist Shoshana Zuboff about surveillance capitalism and how she sees the “fight for a human future” today.
Prepare your questions!
https://t.co/A9eumTZ0TJ

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Google and Meta, the owner of Facebook, accounted for at least half of the £43bn spent on advertising in the UK last year, according to new research https://t.co/OqgxDqevjj

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

The full session is available here
https://t.co/VKtoZ1CgXM

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

🚨WED 30th April, 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST / 5 PM BST

Join @carolecadwalla @YaelEisenstat @Moonalice @zamaan_qureshi @JGo4Justice and more for 100 Days of the Broligarchy - an urgent conversation

Subscribe to get the zoom link
https://t.co/whw9hn3gV8

[The Citizens @allthecitizens]

🚨 100 Days of the Broligarchy

In this emergency session of the Big Tech Oversight Board, we look at Trump’s first 100 days through the lens of Big Tech - the good, the bad and the Broligarchy.

Join us Wed 30th April, 9AM PST/12pm EST/ 5PM BST - on ZOOM

https://t.co/INjCyWWLfL

[Zamaan Qureshi @zamaan_qureshi]

I think the Theo Von / Zuckerberg podcast episode is best summarized in the first 20 seconds…

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

Meta’s AI bots are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play.” The chats can turn explicit, even when the users are children. https://t.co/1TZ3jebLnn via @WSJ

[The Citizens @allthecitizens]

🚨 100 Days of the Broligarchy

In this emergency session of the Big Tech Oversight Board, we look at Trump’s first 100 days through the lens of Big Tech - the good, the bad and the Broligarchy.

Join us Wed 30th April, 9AM PST/12pm EST/ 5PM BST - on ZOOM

https://t.co/INjCyWWLfL

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

I never would have read *Careless People*, Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta's lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it:

https://t.co/gCFtdZBLcB

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[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Statement below on the second landmark decision v Google in favor of the United States of America. On a personal note, I'm thrilled. This has been a decade in the making, and I believe history will prove it cost publishers globally more billions than one can count.

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

When you think you are above the law
https://t.co/HlOAXFT500

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Seriously. Seriously. Meta/Facebook/Instagram wrote this in a press release today,
“It’s absurd that the FTC is trying to break up a great American company.” This is a company competing for worst reputation among the top 100 brands (Axios Harris 100).

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

The landmark antitrust case against Meta resumes in Washington today.

The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate competition, effectively giving itself a monopoly.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Landmark antitrust trial could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram https://t.co/2ehZisFXZZ

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Six years ago, I walked into the lair of the tech gods - TED - to warn them democracy may not survive technology.

In fact, I was the one who almost didn’t survive.

This year I returned & called them data rapists.

Complicit in a coup.

Collaborators.

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

What is emerging from Meta whistleblowers is just shocking.

[Zamaan Qureshi @zamaan_qureshi]

Pretty stunning testimony here from Sarah Wynn-Williams, the latest Meta whistleblower to come forward, to Sen. @MarshaBlackburn:

"Facebook was targeting 13-17-year-olds. It could identify when they were feeling worthless, or helpless... and share it with advertisers."

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

THIS

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Do me a favor. If you have had any concerns about Facebook or Instagram aka Meta and its impact on society and/or kids, please make sure you tell the world that the FTC trial to break up the company starts next Monday, April 14th in DC. Unless Zuckerberg gets his way.

[The Citizens @allthecitizens]

🚨 Our latest Dispatch: Musk and Meta, it all comes tumbling down.

Highlights: @TanyaOCarroll's win over Meta, @MarietjeSchaake's pivotal The Tech Coup, and our weekly call to action.

https://t.co/pWNKYTJ76t